Residents who want to avoid raking their leaves this fall may do so with peace of mind. Experts say leaving the leaves can be ...

A team led by Penn State researchers identified 22 new species of gall wasps, naming them after famous thieves. This ...

Small red and orange insects with spots have been giving ladybugs a bad rap for the havoc they've been causing.

It seems to be working. In 2023, researchers at Michigan State University released nearly 40,000 wasps at fruit farms throughout Michigan and saw a significant reduction in SWD numbers ...

Great Lakes region, including Michigan – and climate change is largely to blame. A mix of factors is in play, including rising temperatures, more severe and intense rainstorms, increasing ...

There is quite a bit of research that shows that when some cancer grows inside our body, our breath actually changes. Our ...

In fact, there are more than 900,000 different species of insects known. However, this is a conservative number. Scientists estimate that there could be more than 2 million and as many as 3 ...

Another reason you don’t want your fruit to hang around too long: Hatching larvae eat “damp, decomposing, organic matter,” ...

A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the ...

Insects can feel air’s viscosity. While the same laws of physics reign over Earth’s smallest and largest species, the balance of forces shifts with size. Intermolecular forces flex beneath the ...

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